Spinning-ring and holder th erefor



(No Model.)

J. W. WATTLE'S.

SPINNING RING AND HOLDER THEREFOR.

No. 246,646. I Patented Sept. 6,1881.

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'NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

SPINNING-RING AND HOLDER THEREFOR.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 246,646, dated September6, 1881. Application filed July 9, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH W. WATTLEs, of Oanto'n,'of the county ofNorfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement .in Spinning-Rings and Holders Therefor; and I do herebydeclare the same to be described in the following v specification, andrepresented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a topview, and Fig. 2 a transverse section, of a ring and its holder providedwith my invention. Fig. 3 is a bottom view ofthe ring and its removablebushing. Fig. 4t is a top view, Fig. 5 a bottom view, and Fig. 6 atransverse section, of the ringholder. Fig. 7 is a transverse section ofthe removable bushing.

With spinning-frame rings the wear of the race by the traveler ismostly, if not entirely, contined to the inner flange of the race, suchbeing due to the centrifugal force generated in the traveler whileinrapid revolution around the race. A ring after having become too muchworn or so reduced was generally considered as useless, or as so muchwaste material, until 1 made the invention described in the UnitedStates Patent No. 199,604, dated January 22, 1878.

My present improvement has reference to that of. the said patent-thatis, to a spinningframe ring constructed with astationary partial or semirace, and provided with a removable bushing, provided with either one ortwo partial or semi races. the nature of my invention being duly setforth in the claims hereinafter presented.

In the drawings, the ring A is shown as oylindrical 011 its innerperiphery, and provided at top with a partial or semi race, a, and atbottom with a flange, 1), whose outer circumference is circular, buteccentric to the race or to the inner periphery of the ring, such ringhaving within it a removable bushing, B, provided with either one or twopartial or semi races, 0 d, arranged as represented. The bushingB isretained within the ringA by friction, the bushing having a close lit tothe ring.

The ring-holder shown atG is a flanged annulus, whose bodyfiscylindrical, and is cocentric with respect to the flange 9, there beingin such body a cross-cut, h, to render the holder compressible. W'ithinthe body are two rabbets, 2' and k, formed as shown, the upper of thembeing to receive the ring A and the I lower of them being to receive andhold an auxiliary bushing, D, like the bushing B. After the latterbushing may have become worn, so as to render necessary its removal fromthe ring, such may be done, and the two bushings may be caused to changeplaces-that is, the auxiliary bushing may be put in the ring and theworn bushing in the holder or the lower rabbet thereof. The upper rabbetis eccentric with respect to the lower one, though of a diameter tocorrespond to that otthc bottom flange of the ring.

By having the ring and its holder constructed in manner as described,adjustment of the ring in the holder, and the latter in the ring-rail tobring the rail into conceutricity with the spindle, can easily beeii'ected by sufficiently turning the ring around in the holder, and thelatter in its socket in the rail. With the cross-cut in the ring-holderthe latter, when acted on by its confining-screw of the ring-rail, willbe clamped on the ring, as well as held in place in the rail.

I do not herein claim a spinning-frame ring constructed with astationary partial or semi race and a socket for reception of aremovable bushing having a single partial or semi race, or two of such.Nor do I herein claim such a bushing.

\Vhat I claim as my present invention is as follows:

1. The ring A, having the partial or semi race a and the eccentricflange 1), arranged substantially as set forth.

2. The combination ofa spinning-frame ring, A, having a partial or semirace. a, at top, an eccentric flange, b, at bottom, and a cylindricalinner periphery, with a removable bushing, B, made to tit within thering, and provided with two partial or semi races arranged with it, asrepresented.

3. The annular compressible ring-holder, provided with thesupporting-flange and with the body eccentricon its outer peripherytherewith, and with the ring-holdingrabbet, as described, in combinationwith the removable ring-bushing and the ring, having partial or semiraces, all being substantially as set'l'orth.

JOSEPH W. WATTLES.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT.

